STATE OF NEW YORK
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4530--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 16, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. MURPHY, LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reimbursement method-
ologies for tuition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 4405 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1990, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 a. The commissioner [of education] and the commissioner of social
5 services shall develop reimbursement methodologies for the tuition and
6 maintenance components of approved private schools and special act
7 school districts. The commissioner [of education], in consultation with
8 the appropriate state agencies and departments, shall have responsibil-
9 ity for developing [a] reimbursement [methodology] methodologies for
10 tuition which shall be based upon appropriate educational standards
11 promulgated pursuant to regulations of the commissioner [of education].
12 The commissioner of social services, in consultation with appropriate
13 state agencies and departments, shall have responsibility for developing
14 a reimbursement methodology for maintenance, pursuant to section three
15 hundred ninety-eight-a of the social services law and the regulations
16 promulgated thereunder.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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